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The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Benfold was left stranded in the South China Sea for four days without basic utility services after experiencing a severe engineering failure.
Aubrey de Grey notes that AI systems like AlphaFold accelerate biological discoveries by predicting protein structures. A spin-out from his foundation utilized AlphaFold to design therapies that target and break down stiffened extracellular matrix proteins.
Bill Thompson prefers his Galaxy Fold phone due to its open-source Android operating system, which allowed him to examine its inner workings, develop military implants, and conduct personal forensic analysis for security, unlike Apple's closed system.
David Friedberg describes Calico and Revel Pharma using AlphaFold and directed evolution to create a novel enzyme that degrades CML, reversing skin glycation from over 70 to 31 years old.
Whittemore notes John Jumper, Nobel laureate and AlphaFold co-creator, left DeepMind for Anthropic last week, marking the second high-profile VP exit after Noam Shazeer departed for OpenAI.
The 'AI brain drain' saw key researchers Noam Shazeer (Transformer paper lead) move from Google to OpenAI and John Jumper (Nobel laureate, AlphaFold co-creator) from Google DeepMind to Anthropic.